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      im jealous i only have 3 or 4 aerial leafs on each plant
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      Quote Originally Posted by rainblood View Post
      im jealous i only have 3 or 4 aerial leafs on each plant
      I'm more jealous... I have what look like miniature lilies with no aerial leafs within sight.
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      I'll share tubers, just have to read how to do it.

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      For pond tabs that have crumbled, just place a tab size amount of the fertilizer in a square of toilet paper fold, twist end and quickly push it under the soil before the paper dissolves. Worked well for me and no scum in the water.
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      It was so cold here that I started my seeds about 2 weeks later than most, and even then it was still too cold out side so I kept them in the house for another few weeks.

      I only have aerial leaves on one, and it has 7 aerial leaves. It is apparently the most vigorous plant of the lot. I came from one of the seeds from Matherfish.
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      mine started out decent, but one since died and the other one is just now getting aerials. nothing like what I had the first time trying a couple years ago. even my returning two have only had one bloom each. I'm suspecting because it's been hot and dry here all summer long. I keep watering, but it's just not the same as rain.

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      Was at the farm this weekend and the Japanese beetles destroyed the bloom

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      Did anyone besides Cindy get a bloom on their growout Lotus?
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      I plan to move my buckets into the greenhouse that covers my large pond for the winter. Hopefully they will survive in there.
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      Quote Originally Posted by koi4u2c View Post
      Did anyone besides Cindy get a bloom on their growout Lotus?
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      Nope. One of mine looked like it was doing good then died and the other never really grew.

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      How are you guys over wintering these?
      Just take the pot into the garage? Leave water in it? Drain the water?
      Pull out the tubers and let them dry?

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      You can just put the pot in your garage with wet soil. You can have water over the soil but you do not have to. Just keep the soil wet. Do not dry the tuber out nor let it get completely dry.
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      I can't lift the 10 gallon containers so maybe I'll just dig them up and repot them with some of the
      clay/dirt and stick them in the garage. I'd like to see if maybe in year two these might get something
      other than just leaves.
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      Over wintering...

      Dug around but mostly I could only find roots. I did find a sort of "tuber" in one of them.
      Will the roots over winter or just the tuber looking one? Maybe I should keep looking? (The
      water is already pretty dang cold! )

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      The bottom picture definitely has 3 small tubers. Plant them. The first pic has some runners but I would plant them also. Next to the tiny leaf in the top pic left hand corner looks like a growing tip. Be careful not to break it. Looks good!
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      Personally, I'd stop looking. Hobbyists tend to underestimate the resiliency of the Nelumbo tuber; as long as the tuber does not freeze solid, odds are they regrow and evolution has adapted lotus to alter cellular physiology to survive temps to minus 4 C. A quick look puts you in a USDA zone 8 and I know zones only are concerned with the lowest temperature end of the zone....a refrigerator would rate a USDA zone 10....but if the pot is in the ground and can be protected from a hard freeze you should be okay. Runners are difficult to get to survive, if not replanted quickly. In the upper left, I see a broken growing tip and the lower photo, I see one tuber possibly mature enough to possibly survive and one that is questionable.

      I'm not a lotus expert by any stretch of the imagination, but having grown them for over twenty years now....I'd plant the one tuber, keep it above freezing and hope, come spring, it had stored enough starch and nutrients to feed the new sprout. As for runners....nothing lost in trying, but odds are generally statistically against their survival. If the pot may hold others, I'd leave them be and protect the pots from freezing. I have to think you saying you can't move them means they are buried and at 8b, your freeze line should not be all that deep.
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      Quote Originally Posted by matherfish View Post
      You can just put the pot in your garage with wet soil. You can have water over the soil but you do not have to. Just keep the soil wet. Do not dry the tuber out nor let it get completely dry.
      1. Thanks
      2. I totally forgot about these guys and left them outside all winter (relatively mild) and they are coming back to life. I have a bunch of small aerial leaves coming up...maybe I'll get a bloom this year.
      3. Ok I lied. I did not forget about them...I was just too lazy to carry the buckets into the garage
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